Sky Sports is it Racist and Prejudiced against the Scots????

[thecraw]

I was truey appalled and disgusted at Sky Sports refusal to even acknowledge the achievements of Alastair Forsyth during there recent coverage of the USPGA.

While Mr Forsyth was having a steady final two rounds which saw him slowly and surely climb the leader board (not that you would have known watching Sky Sports coverage) all we got was Golden Boy Poulter here and there, followed by wonderful Casey. Followed by more Justin Rose. Where did messers Casey and Poulter finish may I ask? Rose rallied well to also finish joint 9th however Rose is ranked considerably higher than his Scottish counterpart!

Even during the third round when Forsyth was paired with Poulter, who were we treated too on out television sets? Yet who played the better golf and finished on a lower score????

Very biased and naive. There refusal to show any of his achievement in finishing in the top ten is a kick in the parts you would wish not to be kicked in. I will now be cancelling my subscription after the Ryder Cup!

 

[madandra]

thecraw, I agree that there does seem to be an almost compulsory approach to overlooking Scottish sports men and women. I was well pi55ed off with the BBC for not even mentioning Andy Murray's Masters win last week considering the fact that if it was Timid Tim it would have been top topic. I guess we should just accept we are a colony.

Poulter has a 'profile' that makes good TV ... well the producers must think so.

He is just a Tommy Tank with a gimpy beard.

 

[USER1999]

I am afraid you are an idiot on this. The coverage is supplied by the US media, and so if they don't focus on the less well known players (particularly if they know their main US audience have never heard of them and have no interest in them), Sky clearly can't either.

That is the way it is.

 

[Atticus_Finch]

I am afraid you are an idiot on this. The coverage is supplied by the US media, and so if they don't focus on the less well known players (particularly if they know their main US audience have never heard of them and have no interest in them), Sky clearly can't either.

That is the way it is.

I was about to write the same thing, but I didn't feel the
need for the unnecessary insult. I wonder why you did?

 

[Parmo]

I am afraid you are an idiot on this. The coverage is supplied by the US media, and so if they don't focus on the less well known players (particularly if they know their main US audience have never heard of them and have no interest in them), Sky clearly can't either.

That is the way it is.

I concur, I believe the theory about Sky being racist is flawed, also I would advise you to take that greasy chip off your shoulder.

Sky Sports is it Racist and Prejudiced? For one the Scots are not a Race and you can not be Racist and Prejudiced, you are racists towards a race and Prejudice against a section of your own race.

Someone once said to me "Never under estimate the predictability of stupidity" and I see what they mean.

Very biased and naive. There refusal to show any of his achievement in finishing in the top ten is a kick in the parts you would wish not to be kicked in. I will now be cancelling my subscription after the Ryder Cup!

Boy, some real passion for your people there... NOT.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Without wishing to stoop to the levels of infantile name calling I have to disagree with your statement. As prviously mentioned Sky are restricted by the US feed on pictures. I belive they have a small number of their own cameras but not on every hole and not enough to concentrate on one individual.

Sadly Forsyth is not a name to the US audience and so unless he got into the top 3 or 4 and looked to be challenging it was unlikely you were ever going to see more than the odd putt. If you consider how much coverage Sky shows of the European tour where Forsyth competes I'm sure you will agree that when he plays well he gets more than average air time.

 

[toonarmy]

Multiple punctuation points are the sign of a diseased mind. It doesn't make it any more of a question by using 4 question marks, does it? (???????)

Watching some random Olympics coverage last night, I noticed a canoeist being referred to by the commentator as 'he's Scottish through and through but he's representing Britain here'. How very noble of him.

Given that nationality has no value in sport, why would you care anyway? The great Scottish golfer Lyle is English, the great Scottish golfer Montogmerie is decried as being English and frankly you can't move for Celts in most sports coverage (in the commentary boxes I mean - look at BBC!)

Yes, it's frustrating when 'your' man/woman doesn't get the coverage, but now you know what it's like for me whenever Woods is playing - you never get to see anyone else at all!

 

[birdieman]

I don't believe Sky are racist against any race or prejudiced against Scots, but probably are prejudiced against lesser known players as they don't help ratings, that's just business. Monty is a Scot but gets more media coverage than anyone bar Tiger because he is famous and often stroppy so therefore marketable = ratings, then ratings = advertising revenue.
Nationalism comes and goes in the UK, seems quite strong at the moment. Blair's devolution plans to bury independence once and for all for UK nations has backfired, that combined with Labour being in power for 11 years, Brown's dithering, a crap economic situation, Alex Salmond performing very well for the SNP, Cameron (good Scottish name meaning 'crooked nose') doing ok for Tories has everything politically 'all shook up'.

I didn't understand Parmo's comment on trying to define what race and prejudice mean, you can demonstrate prejudice on just about any choice you make over anything. Race is hard to define but if Scots aren't a race as in ethnicity what would you call them, a nationality perhaps?
If someone called me a haggis-eating, skirt-wearing sweaty sock I would probably feel racially abused (what else would you call it?) so in that respect the Scots probably are a race albeit made up of components such as Picts, Celts, Angles, Vikings, Normans, Romans, etc historically and more recently Poles, Indians, Pakistanis, West-Indians, Italians, Chinese etc as well. It only takes a second generation of immigrants to become almost fully Scottish in terms of accents, culture, interests etc
Enough rambling, let's not all fall out.

 

[welshjim22]

Too be fair just like the BBC Sky do tend to focus solely on England or the English in sports more specifically for the football. Wasn't impressed with the rugby coverage either. The Sky commentators are crap, but i like their golf team. However, i was pretty sure on Sky coverage there was an interview with Alastair Forsyth. Maybe mistaken might have seen it online but thought it was Sky.

My favourite example was watching Lineker talk about Welsh football during 2001 when he said they hadn't done well. We beat Germany drew with Argentina and walked all over Italy, i was in the stadium so i know we weren't lucky. For a country of 3mill i think those results were pretty good.

 

[time_vans]

Slightly off tangent but maybe not, when ever I apply for a job it seems I can be White British or Scottish or Welsh or Irish but rarely English.Back on topic the American 'Golfing' Viewers may only want to see Tiger but apparently the vast majority of Americans dont know who he is! Little chance for Forsyth then and even when tiger isnt playing he gets mentioned more than most....just plain sad.

 

[USER1999]

Ok, my choiced of the word idiot may have been ill advised, and have caused offence, however, it doesn't take much thought to have worked out that the poor coverage of certain players was not down to Sky's prejudice, but that of the american providers, and to close down a subscription purely based on sourced coverage from one event is not the act of a rational man.

Maybe TheCraw wrote this in a different spirit to that which has been interpretted.

 

[Parmo]

TV coverage is and always has been focused on the lead players, I do like to see the odd stroke of the lower players or as the americans would call "hotdogs".

 

[TonyN]

Too be fair just like the BBC Sky do tend to focus solely on England or the English in sports more specifically for the football.

Thats because there are only two teams in scotland

Legs it a mile

 

[StuartD]

Too be fair just like the BBC Sky do tend to focus solely on England or the English in sports more specifically for the football.

Thats because there are only two teams in scotland

Legs it a mile

Celtic and ?????????

 

[birdieman]

Too be fair just like the BBC Sky do tend to focus solely on England or the English in sports more specifically for the football.

Thats because there are only two teams in scotland

Legs it a mile

Celtic and ?????????

Aberdeen of course

There are only 3 teams in England and only two teams in Spain and Holland so nothing unusual there.

 

[TonyN]

I love the banter on here! Glad someone had a qucik witted answer.... or two and dint go off on one!

 

[cm_qs]

Us poor Scots!

The Almighty has blessed us with the most beautiful country in the world, the greatest sport in the world and the best courses on which to play it....... and then ruins it all by giving us the neighbours from hell!


Mon' the porridge gobblers!

 

[EchtLoon]

Too be fair just like the BBC Sky do tend to focus solely on England or the English in sports more specifically for the football.

Thats because there are only two teams in scotland

Legs it a mile

Celtic and ?????????

Aberdeen of course

There are only 3 teams in England and only two teams in Spain and Holland so nothing unusual there.

This is what makes me laugh, we get the 'two teams' nonsense all the time, and yet England at a stretch has just three, although in the last few years it has of course been just two as well.

As far as SKY and their coverage. I cancelled mine in June, and made sure that they knew it was due to lack of coverage of Scottish football for ojne thing (which the Scottish CS rep was delighted to pass on - apparently they do create a complaints list for cancelled subs).

Yes they don;t have the rights for the SPL, but why did Rangers UEFA cup exploits (much as that pains me) get almost no coverage? Even the day before the final we were bombarded with the 'great' Russian final that was about to take place, and nary a sniff of the Manchester final that was imminent.

Same goes for Soccer Saturday, or Sunday Supplement - a laugh of a title, what they mean is 40 minutes of talking about Man U/Arsenal/Chelsea & Liverpool,followed by 15 on England, and then 5 on random other football teams if you're lucky.

Their football coverage is totally skewed towards the 'greatest' (LOL) league in the world to the exclusion of all else. Well some of your subscribers are not English, and would like a bit of balance for our subs (and I speak as a Bolton ST holder).

At the end of the day, if you watch Sky Sports News, you'll soon realise that what that actually is is News of Sports on SKY, and that sums them up.


I no longer pay for Sky Sports.

 

[Parmo]

I watched a program on scottish farmers last night, it was wonderful to see the enviroment they work in and how they sqeeze a living from the land. They had a Aberdeen Angus farmer who was selling embreos of his cattle for cash, one cow cost him £10k (or something) and he had taken 140 top embreos out of it for $500 each.

I have never been to Scotland but after watching that program I am thinking of taking a long weekend away with the wife. It may or may not be St Andrews to which the wife does not know yet!!

 

[USER1999]

Parmo, if you go in the summer, and it is a short one, blink and you'll miss it, you will get bitten to death by midges, and the rest of the year it is cold and wet.

That said, if the rain ever stops, and the fog ever lifts, it is beautiful, and believe it or not, the people can be quite friendly too.